Remington’s Model 700 Stainless 5-R Threaded Barrel Part II

I’m not sure when it all began. Might have been in the 70s and a fateful  trip with our children to Disney World. More specifically, the “It’s a Small World” exhibit. My wife and I share much in common, however, in some ways we significantly differ. I stepped out of the car at the end of the ride thinking my head would explode over the repetition of the “It’s a Small World” song and sappy one world, “Let’s all hold hands” communist tripe. My wife came away with the notion she would set out to reduce the size of all that comprise the physical world. Our perspectives tempered our experiences; my recent completion of military service and B-52 bomb wing rotations to Southeast Asia, my wife being vertically challenged and believing anything taller attempts to bully or suppress her energetic Irish being. I grumble, but she acts. Example? Sure.

This past weekend, one of my wife’s dwarf pear trees defected from her army of all things small when It began to grow quite rapidly, vertically, almost majestically. While I was busy cleaning up the tree line, pruning low branches and brush and tossing them in the chipper, my wife picked up the lopper and indicated she was going to prune the pear tree. That should have set off an alarm, but I was distracted. A few minutes later, I glanced over to see her trimming off dead branches and watersprouts, letting them fall into neat little piles beneath the tree. Ten minutes later, I heard the chainsaw roar to life and looked over just in time to see B movie grade fruit tree carnage. Bark, sawdust and pears flying everywhere if for only a shocking, intense brief moment. Then silence.

She turned and faced the rest of the fruit trees with a smile on her face, she is a very sweet woman, and they all seemed to hunker down just a bit to avoid standing out. Me too. OK, maybe my imagination is coloring my perception a bit. Yes, the tree was rotting from the inside out and carpenter ants did pour out of the stump. And, yes, the trunk did fall apart when lifted, but it was the way she said, “There. Doesn’t that look better?”.

Fun with the Remington Model 700 Stainless 5-R

Warning: Bullet selections are specific, and loads are not valid with substitutions of different bullets of the same weight. Variations in bullet length will alter net case capacity,  pressure and velocity. Primer selection is specific and primer types are not interchangeable. These are maximum loads in my firearms and may be excessive in others. All loads should be reduced by 5% as a starting point for development where cartridges have greater than 40 grains in capacity and 10% for cartridges with less than 40 grain capacity following safe handloading practices as represented in established mainstream reloading manuals. Presentation of these loads does not constitute a solicitation for their use, nor a recommendation.

Notes… I have none